Special Characters

By Webmonkey Staff

To make special characters and accented letters show up on your pages, use a special set of codes called character entities, which you insert into your HTML code and which your browser will display as the corresponding symbols or characters you want.

The most common character entities have been collected by the International Organization for Standardization and compiled in the ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1 table, which includes special characters, letters with diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.), and scientific and currency symbols. The Latin-1 table contains 255 characters.

ISO Entities

Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
‘		‘	left single quote
’		’	right single quote
&sbquo;		‚	single low-9 quote
“		“	left double quote
”		”	right double quote
&bdquo;		„	double low-9 quote
&dagger;		†	dagger
&Dagger;		‡	double dagger
&permil;		‰	per mill sign
&lsaquo;		‹	single left-pointing angle quote
&rsaquo;		›	single right-pointing angle quote
&spades;		♠	black spade suit
&clubs;		♣	black club suit
&hearts;		♥	black heart suit
&diams;		♦	black diamond suit
&oline;		‾	overline, = spacing overscore
←		←	leftward arrow
↑		↑	upward arrow
→		→	rightward arrow
↓		↓	downward arrow
™		™	trademark sign
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
	-		unused
			horizontal tab
			line feed
			unused
			space
	!	!	exclamation mark
"	"	“	double quotation mark
	#	#	number sign
	$	$	dollar sign
	%	%	percent sign
&	&	&	ampersand
	'	‘	apostrophe
	(	(	left parenthesis
	)	)	right parenthesis
	*	*	asterisk
	+	+	plus sign
	,	,	comma
	-	-	hyphen
	.	.	period
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
&frasl;	/	/	slash
	0-9		digits 0-9
	:	:	colon
	;	;	semicolon
<	<	<	less-than sign
	=	=	equals sign
>	>	>	greater-than sign
	?	?	question mark
	@	@	at sign
	A-Z		uppercase letters A-Z
	[	[	left square bracket
	\	\	backslash
	]	]	right square bracket
	]	]	caret
	_	_	horizontal bar (underscore)
	`	`	grave accent
	a-z		lowercase letters a-z
	{	{	left curly brace
	\|	\|	vertical bar
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
	}	}	right curly brace
	~	~	tilde
	-		unused
–		–	en dash
—		—	em dash
	-		unused
			nonbreaking space
¡	¡	¡	inverted exclamation
¢	¢	¢	cent sign
£	£	£	pound sterling
¤	¤	¤	general currency sign
¥	¥	¥	yen sign
¦ or &brkbar;	¦	¦	broken vertical bar
§	§	§	section sign
¨ or &die;	¨	¨	umlaut
©	©	©	copyright
ª	ª	ª	feminine ordinal
«	«	«	left angle quote
¬	¬	¬	not sign
			soft hyphen
®	®	®	registered trademark
¯ or &hibar;	¯	¯	macron accent
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
°	°	°	degree sign
±	±	±	plus or minus
²	²	²	superscript two
³	³	³	superscript three
´	´	´	acute accent
µ	µ	µ	micro sign
¶	¶	¶	paragraph sign
·	·	·	middle dot
¸	¸	¸	cedilla
¹	¹	¹	superscript one
º	º	º	masculine ordinal
»	»	»	right angle quote
¼	¼	¼	one-fourth
½	½	½	one-half
¾	¾	¾	three-fourths
¿	¿	¿	inverted question mark
À	À	À	uppercase A, grave accent
Á	Á	Á	uppercase A, acute accent
Â	Â	Â	uppercase A, circumflex accent
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
Ã	Ã	Ã	uppercase A, tilde
Ä	Ä	Ä	uppercase A, umlaut
Å	Å	Å	uppercase A, ring
Æ	Æ	Æ	uppercase AE
Ç	Ç	Ç	uppercase C, cedilla
È	È	È	uppercase E, grave accent
É	É	É	uppercase E, acute accent
Ê	Ê	Ê	uppercase E, circumflex accent
Ë	Ë	Ë	uppercase E, umlaut
Ì	Ì	Ì	uppercase I, grave accent
Í	Í	Í	uppercase I, acute accent
Î	Î	Î	uppercase I, circumflex accent
Ï	Ï	Ï	uppercase I, umlaut
Ð	Ð	Ð	uppercase Eth, Icelandic
Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	uppercase N, tilde
Ò	Ò	Ò	uppercase O, grave accent
Ó	Ó	Ó	uppercase O, acute accent
Ô	Ô	Ô	uppercase O, circumflex accent
Õ	Õ	Õ	uppercase O, tilde
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
Ö	Ö	Ö	uppercase O, umlaut
×	×	×	multiplication sign
Ø	Ø	Ø	uppercase O, slash
Ù	Ù	Ù	uppercase U, grave accent
Ú	Ú	Ú	uppercase U, acute accent
Û	Û	Û	uppercase U, circumflex accent
Ü	Ü	Ü	uppercase U, umlaut
Ý	Ý	Ý	uppercase Y, acute accent
Þ	Þ	Þ	uppercase THORN, Icelandic
ß	ß	ß	lowercase sharps, German
à	à	à	lowercase a, grave accent
á	á	á	lowercase a, acute accent
â	â	â	lowercase a, circumflex accent
ã	ã	ã	lowercase a, tilde
ä	ä	ä	lowercase a, umlaut
å	å	å	lowercase a, ring
æ	æ	æ	lowercase ae
ç	ç	ç	lowercase c, cedilla
è	è	è	lowercase e, grave accent
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
é	é	é	lowercase e, acute accent
ê	ê	ê	lowercase e, circumflex accent
ë	ë	ë	lowercase e, umlaut
ì	ì	ì	lowercase i, grave accent
í	í	í	lowercase i, acute accent
î	î	î	lowercase i, circumflex accent
ï	ï	ï	lowercase i, umlaut
ð	ð	ð	lowercase eth, Icelandic
ñ	ñ	ñ	lowercase n, tilde
ò	ò	ò	lowercase o, grave accent
ó	ó	ó	lowercase o, acute accent
ô	ô	ô	lowercase o, circumflex accent
õ	õ	õ	lowercase o, tilde
ö	ö	ö	lowercase o, umlaut
÷	÷	÷	division sign
ø	ø	ø	lowercase o, slash
ù	ù	ù	lowercase u, grave accent
ú	ú	ú	lowercase u, acute accent
û	û	û	lowercase u, circumflex accent
Name Code	Number Code	Glyph	Description
ü	ü	ü	lowercase u, umlaut
ý	ý	ý	lowercase y, acute accent
þ	þ	þ	lowercase thorn, Icelandic
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	lowercase y, umlaut

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amy maay

thanks:)
Hawksof05

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Beng J

You are fabulous!!! thank you for this - I've been looking for these special characters. Thanks!!!!
kneat knitter

Saved my b**. Thank you.
Betty Bloopers

These symbols, html as they are, are not for facebook. They are ... just that. HTML for coding.
Abinayadev

nice collection of necessary spl characters...
Cona:)

⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
Gemini4730

♥
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thankss
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thank you all..
pvp serverlar

thanks you all
Elvedams

Thank you admin
yuregininsesi

same. i dont understand it. my friend has one, but she seems to avoid the conversation on how to do it everytime? i suppose it is just something you *have* to know!
led lamp

A very thorough fantastic list. If you don't mind me bookmarking this page for later use I'll do it as I'm always wondering what the web safe characters are.
Beth

How do you make a "greater than or equal to" sign?
Hitesh &hearts;

♥
Business Opportunity

OH man can you image trying to program in that code, it would take months!!
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Wow! Man, that's so great! I bookmark your post!!! Thank you!
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Thanks so much!! Your post is really helpful:D
Allimad

:P
Dast

thanks www.onnumarachat.com
Lena Meyer

Very Thanks, Super
gebze nakliyat

thanx you
Kimberly Motes

I am specifically looking for a lightning bolt symbol like in the band name AC/DC. Can you help me?
fan

I much prefer the previous list of special characters that Webmonkey had up for years, it was much easier to understand and make use of.
evden eve nakliyat

thanx
hjk

gjghjdgjetygh
hjk

bnjk
zayiflama

i dont understand? do you just type the number code in ?? thanks xx
Mayur Chandarana

How do you put a Heart on you Facebook name?
AskSabrina

here ❤ ♡ ❤ ღ
Blayd_kutz

you type a less than sign and a 3 so..

< and 3 see how it looks like a sideways heart <3
Kelly

try Fna Alt L then you get this: ♥
Michael Gurden

you can make a heart on facebook by typing <3
wordpress tema

Thank you admin very good
sesli sohbet

Thank you very nice...
sesli sohbet

Thank you admin
Dr Shyam

I remember when you guys had this YEARS ago [talking before year 2000!]...I was in elementary school and stumbled upon this site when I started making my old anime websites. I see you changed it up this year. Still looks great!
RacerWife7

Too bad Facebook doesn't allow these in user names. :( I have NO idea how some people have them in there because it kicks mine out as invalid every time I try it.
sarah

same. i dont understand it. my friend has one, but she seems to avoid the conversation on how to do it everytime? i suppose it is just something you *have* to know!
turtLe

just copy and paste.. nothing to know
Anon

People who don't understand: Hold down alt, and type in 0 followed by the number given after "&#" on the "number code". Then let go of alt. So ALT + 0172 = ¬
hezzie

i dont understand? do you just type the number code in ?? thanks xx
sesli chat

Thank you admin
John Haas

You left out the en and em spaces: and
sesli chat

Thank you admin
sesli sohbet

Thank you for the post great!
bk t

I don't understand how to CREATE these umlauts, etc. With a number code? type in the number code?
mydesignbytes

I created a quick reference pdf for the more commen symbols and I also posted a really long list of the rest of them, all can been seen here: http://wp.me/poRKn-JI

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